Chemical reactions take place all around us. Life itself is a highly organized sequence of chemical reactions. The materials that make up your skin, bone, blood and flesh are assembled through an intricate array of complex chemical reactions.
Much of the activity of our industrial society depends on chemical reactions. From the extraction of metals from their ores to the world of plastics and medicine, the derivation of these substances is dependent on chemical reactions. All chemical reactions take place according to a set of general principles that relate the amounts of materials consumed in a reaction to the amounts of products formed. In this section, you will learn how chemists determine how much of each chemical is required to make a desired amount of product.
Much of the activity of our industrial society depends on chemical reactions. From the extraction of metals from their ores to the world of plastics and medicine, the derivation of these substances is dependent on chemical reactions. All chemical reactions take place according to a set of general principles that relate the amounts of materials consumed in a reaction to the amounts of products formed. In this section, you will learn how chemists determine how much of each chemical is required to make a desired amount of product.
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